HOLLYOAKS star Daniel Hyde is being questioned over an alleged £160,000 fraud.

HOLLYOAKS star Daniel Hyde is being questioned over an alleged #160,000 fraud.

London police are asking the 30-year-old bad boy Scott Anderson in the Mersey TV soap whether he used a suspect cheque for nearly #20,000 from Lloyds TSB bank to buy a top sports car which was involved in a crash.

The actor was involved in another crash, in a #75,000 TVR Tuscan, last month.

In the soap Scott is running a money-laundering scheme.

Last Thursday Mr Hyde went voluntarily to Widnes police station where he was questioned and ar res ted, then released on police bail.

He is suspected of having links to a former Lloyds TSB employee arrested last month on suspicion of defrauding the high street bank of #160,000.

The bank worker is thought to have provided the actor with an allegedly false cheque from an internal bank account.

Mr Hyde, who today declined to comment, is said to have used the cheque to buy the high-powered car from a dealer in Northwich.

He traded it in after crashing it last month and bought a replacement from a dealer in Derbyshire.

He then escaped death after crashing the second car last week.

A spokesman for the City of London police said: "Officers did attend a police station in Cheshire regarding an investigation into fraud."